Sony release Life with PlayStation
Posted by Andrew on Monday, 22nd September 2008 @ 10:01AM
Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) has announced that it will release Life with PlayStation for the PS3 today worldwide simultaneously.
Life with PlayStation is a new lifestyle service that offers users a new visual and interactive way to use their PS3 to access news and information from around the world. As the initial content, Live Channel will be released for Life with PlayStation.
Through a network connected PS3, it delivers worldwide news and information centring on two themes, “place” and “time”, on a world map interface. Some of the live content includes; cloud imagery (provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center), along with weather information (provided by The Weather Channel), news headlines (provided by Google News), and live camera images (partially provided by The Earth Television Network) of nearly 60 cities around the globe.
Through Live Channel, PS3 users will be able to enjoy worldwide news and live information free of charge. In addition to Live Channel, Life with PlayStation will continually deliver a wide variety of interactive content and channels to living rooms through network connected PS3's to further enhance the world of entertainment made possible by PS3.
PS3 users can easily join Life with PlayStation by simply clicking the Folding@home icon on the network column of XMB (XrossMediaBar) that will update to Life with PlayStation.
With the latest update, Folding@home will support more advanced simulation of protein fold, and will also support PS3 unique Folding@home ranking system, which enable users to see where they stand among the worldwide contributors based on their level of contribution.
Disclaimer: This is an archived news piece dated Monday, 22nd September 2008. Pricing and special offers quoted may no longer be valid.
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